no matter how many times i do it.. the g4 ibook is still the WORST computer to take apart, bar none
goal today is to end up with one working 2005 1.33ghz iBook G4. this has been a long postponed project plagued with many broken parts (i got THREE logic boards until one worked, and two dead DVD drives). donor is a 2004 1ghz one which sorta works but has issues
i'm planning on swapping DVD drive, replace the HDD with the msata that was on the older one, keyboard and maybe also LCD if i have the energy today (older looks uneven but newer one has an entire dead row in the middle)
drives in, happy-ish mac. OS9 UT99 still locks up same as in the other ibook which tells me this msata drive is what doesn't like whatever IDE access mode the ibook uses. gonna consider reinstalling in the old HDD
booting from DVD and cloning the partition
i don't want to ever have to open this computer again orz
sigh. froze for some reason, going to try once more. if it freezes again, gonna have to do it in another machine somehow
unnnnnless...
i have a pre-release CR-48 chromebook. those use msata inside. i could put the mac drive in it, boot from usb and dd to the spinning drive plugged into usb
god
ended up just finishing putting both iBooks back together so i can call it a night. older one has no drives now but since i know the hardware all works in the newer one all that's left is to install the system
looks like it went a little further this time around but judging by the lack of activity light in the msata converter or hard drive activity noise, i think it froze again. unfortunately i only have the one 44pin ide to usb so i'm gonna have to do a full disk copy and then restore